EBOOK:
For more than two decades, business intelligence (BI) professionals have tried to shoehorn all reporting and analysis tasks into the same BI toolset and architecture, often with disappointing results. Is there a real solution? Read this eBook by Wayne Eckerson, Director of Research for TechTarget, for the answer.
WHITE PAPER:
This resource describes the current state of BI reporting, significant trends shaping the industry, and ways in which one BI solution satisfies challenging requirements in demanding, heterogeneous environments.
WHITE PAPER:
A unified data access layer using data virtualization provides agile data services that can deliver BI to business processes. Companies with traditional BI installations disconnected from business processes lack this agility. BI/Analytics needs to be agile and more actionable in the context of business processes to realize maximum benefits.
WHITE PAPER:
This white paper introduces the concept of using an EPM Center of Excellence to help organizations realize the full potential of an enterprise performance management initiative and recommends best practices for creating a center that will succeed in the long term.
WHITE PAPER:
Companies need to evaluate market segments to better support internal accounting and decision-making. Learn how SAP ERP Profitability Analysis provides that data for you, and how you can enhance our reporting and analytics with SAP HANA CO-PA.
EBOOK:
This e-book explores the value of BI, including its return on investment, the pros and cons of purchasing versus custom-building a BI application and how recent trends are changing the BI landscape.
WEBCAST:
This brief video introduces an analytics platform that combines predictive analytics with what-if analysis, giving CFOs valuable insight into financial performance and paving the way for smarter, more reliable enterprise decision-making.
WHITE PAPER:
This concise case study outlines how they chose to leverage a Data warehousing as a Service (DaaS), allowing their pricing analysts to have access to a live analytical database, reports, and a team of experienced consultants who understand their business requirements.
PRESENTATION TRANSCRIPT:
Growing data volumes, diverging data sources, amplified information complexity, and increasingly varied users have made it difficult to take advantage of data as a true corporate asset. In this transcript featuring industry thought leader David Loshin, learn how to turn data complexity into an information advantage.
CASE STUDY:
A department of The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia sought to improve its data analysis and operational management processes. They implemented a management solution based on Microsoft BI technologies and gained more insight into its data and has automated reporting processes, which reduced laboratory result turnaround times by 50 percent.